Hi all,
I only joined recently, though have used this forum and others for information on & off for some time.
I bought a new CB200 in 1976 and traded it in 3 years later with 51000 miles on the clock. The bike I traded it in for was a P-reg 500/4 that had covered 12000 miles. In the 2 years I had the 500 we covered a further 34000 miles. The only problems it ever gave me were related to its reluctance to start in damp weather. I eventually traded it in for a new Z550 in 1981, then upgraded to a new GT750 in 1984. When the first (of three) daughters arrived in 1986, the bike had to go.
After many years without a bike, I was yearning for the excitement you get from biking, but without the inherent danger. This led to me building a Lotus 7-style kit car, which I got on the road around 1998 and kept until 2007, when I sold it & bought a 1998 TVR Chimaera 450 (which I still have).
While all that was happening, I started to get the biking bug again. Of the bikes I had owned, the only one I had really regretted selling was the 500/4. A casual look through eBay in 2003 resulted in me winning a "basket case" for